Donald Trump

[stevebrooks]

And another one, this one not even on the list and not being targeted, picked up by mistake and sent to El Salvador, keep that in mind picked up randomly by mistake and shipped off with no chance to defend himself.

https://imgur.com/gallery/ice-agents-re ... ay-ETCFk2I

[stevebrooks]

"Oh dear this is going to cause a lot of problems, I know what, we'll claim it was sent by mistake!"

Transparent as anything, "we sent a letter to a university full of lawyers that has taught most of the best lawyers in the country," this is not going to end well!

https://imgur.com/gallery/what-21JeB7b

[stevebrooks]

VW is going to get fucked over big time, almost guaranteed:

Volkswagen, which earlier in April said Mr Trump’s slew of planned tariffs had dragged down its first-quarter operating profit, wanted to do “as much as possible to remain an investor and reliable partner for the United States”, Blume added.

The problem is the US under Trump is not a reliable partner, it will not end well for VW!

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy ... d8bf3df93b

[stylofone]

"Oh dear this is going to cause a lot of problems, I know what, we'll claim it was sent by mistake!"

Transparent as anything, "we sent a letter to a university full of lawyers that has taught most of the best lawyers in the country," this is not going to end well!

https://imgur.com/gallery/what-21JeB7b

It seems they sent the letter by mistake, but they were still prepared to go with the demands in the letter. This is pretty consistent with the chaos and incompetence that comes from a dictatorship where the "vibe" of the great leader is all they have to guide them. "Oops, we were supposed to be huge arseholes, but we accidentally sent the massive arsehole letter. Oh well, huge, massive, whatever - the boss will be happy either way".

[stevebrooks]

Ooh look, more Signal chat revelations, this time in theory it should be even worse for Hegseth but we'll see what happens with this Admin. Why worse? Well because none of the invited people on the Signal chat actually had security clearances, so it wasn't a matter of one of the people on the chat making a mistake and inviting the wrong person, Hegseth deliberately invited people without security clearance onto a chat and then shared classified info with them, will this tip things over the edge and get him fired? Well it should get him locked up for life like it would be for other members of the military, but if he gets fired he no loner has the Orange ones protection from congress right?

But the fact is, there will be other signal chats we don't yet know about, and maybe other people who were invited to the chats will come forward to protect themselves as things start to get problematic for them. Fact is everyone who was invited to the chat by Hegseth should now be under scrutiny by the FBI and etc!

Apparently the chat included about a dozen people from his "inner circle" of friends lol! Good security there! ANd to top it off he used his private phone and not his government phone, probably Russians and Chinese listening in to every word!

[pipbarber]

Assuming it's true, Hegseth is a fucking clown, but aren't they all? They're all playing out weird infantile domination fantasies that contain no boundaries or rules. I guess that's the politics of fascism.

I very much doubt Pete will be sacked. It would send a shudder through the interconnected system of freaks that work in maga, and you can't do that. Disloyalty is the only crime, so he should be fine.

Nope, nothing to see here, lets move along to the next criminal act, or criminal executive order, or collapsing share market or war...or whatever the fuck is next - but after Pete's fuck up it's likely to be something big.

[stylofone]

Economics is like religion. If only one person believes in it, they're mad, but if everyone believes in it they're righteous. I can feel an enlightenment coming on, by which I mean a massive global financial crisis when everyone realises the whole thing is a massive scam.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets ... 5lt3q.html

[stevebrooks]

Ok, I know someone here is going to Hawaii soon and they are assuming it's safer than the mainland, it's not. Two young German women fresh out of school on a world tour to celebrate, on an exploration trip to Hawaii, were detained and held in prison for days before being deported back to Germany. The reason? They were visiting for 5 weeks and didn't have hotel reservations for the entire 5 weeks. In other words they were going to stay in a hotel for the first period then plan where to go and book accommodation accordingly after they arrived, I mean that's common, it's what a lot of tourists do. Not good enough though, into prison you go!

They had all the paperwork correct, had visited Thailand and New Zealand in the same way, but they were suspicious because they hadn't booked 5 weeks of hotel accommodation!

Do not go, it is not safe!

[stevebrooks]

Trump blinks again:

Donald Trump has insisted his administration has no intention of playing “hard ball” with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in order to make a deal in the two nations’ ongoing trade war.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the President also backtracked on the “very high” 145 per cent additional tariffs he’d slapped on Beijing’s exports, saying they’ll “come down substantially”.

If you thought those tariffs were steep - the US Government has suggested a tariff on 3521 per cent should be applied to some products from a Southeast Asian nation.

We'll see how that works out for him, but China will survive through the tariff war better than the US if it continues much longer. Unlike the US China can look to other sources for stuff they need, but the US has put tariffs on all the other sources, and in some cases there are no other sources. Basically there's nothing in the US that can't be found, and already is being produced elsewhere, China, on the other hand, is often the only real manufacturer of a lot of stuff people want or need.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-ame ... 37068925d9

[stevebrooks]

Trump has sent his final non-negotiable peace deal offer to Zelensky, let's see, where to start?

US recognition of Crimea as part of Russia

Recognition of all territory Russia controls as part of Russia

A promise that Ukraine will never become a member of NATO

All sanctions lifted

Enhanced co-operation between US and Russia in the energy and industrial sector

So complete and utter surrender by Ukraine, why that last point is there I have no idea since it has nothing to do with any peace deal or negotiation on the Ukraine/Russia conflict. It's almost as if he wished to get the point across that they are now on the Russian side in any negotiation or disagreement between any other country in the world and Russia. It's the final surrender of the US to Russia rather than the surrender of Ukraine to Russia, this is everything Putin wanted, and in the end if this was agreed to, I don't think it will be, he would finish invading Ukraine at his leisure with no fear of any response from the US!

https://imgur.com/gallery/here-s-final- ... ou-7bI5X8j